Category: Tools and Information

Google One Online Storage: What Small Businesses Need to Know | Business News Daily

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  • Google One is the name of Google’s paid cloud storage service.
  • Google One includes a new pricing structure.
  • Google One has all of the benefits of Google Drive as well as some extra features.

Google shook things up in the online storage field when it announced that it had rebranded its cloud storage offering and added new pricing plans. Google One is the new name of the company’s paid storage platform, which allows you to store a range of data, including documents from Google Drive and images from Google Photos. Google Drive is still the company’s free document storage service, but paid storage has moved over to Google One.

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How to Stop Being Negative About Everything in Life | Life Hack

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For many people, being negative is just a part of life. Maybe they’ve been negative their whole life or some recent event knocked them sideways, and now they’ve just come to accept that way of thinking, but this article will show you how to stop being negative.

Not only do you have news and social media working hard to flood you with sensationalized stories each day, but you also have your own mindset working against you. We each have our own inherent negativity bias[1] where the bad stuff tends to stay around much longer in our mind than anything positive. This was a survival mechanism back in hunter-gatherer times, but no longer serves us.

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How to stream NYC’s Met Opera for free during COVID-19 | Fast Company

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Like every other cultural institution that makes life in New York City worth living, the Metropolitan Opera was forced to cancel its live performances in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

But don’t expect a finale just yet. The famed opera house, a pioneer of live-streamed theatrical performances, is mining its vault to help all those Verdi and Donizetti fans cope with their cabin fever while they’re holed up in their eight-room Upper West Side penthouses.

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When You Can’t Control Anything Else, Work On Your Customer Service And Watch Your Bottom Line Grow | Forbes

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So many forces are outside of a business’s control. (This is true in every era, not just now, when things feel particularly out of control.)  Yet there is an ingredient of business success that’s within your control to improve, interaction by interaction and inch by inch.

That ingredient is the quality of your engagement with customers: your customer service, customer experience, the quality of your relationship with your customers and of their relationship to your brand and organization.

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Small Business Owners: Don’t Overlook Your HR Strategy | AllBusiness.com

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When you’re an entrepreneur, you generally need to understand every function of your company: operations, sales, marketing, finances, and human resources. Many business owners, however, only concentrate on departments that are directly linked to sales and increased ROI, and put human resources on the back burner.

However, by not making HR a critical department in your operation, you are sabotaging your company. This is not to say that a startup should immediately hire an HR coordinator, but if you run a small business, you need to be knowledgeable about HR. Implementing the following practices will put your organization in a stronger position for growth and financial success.

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23% Feel Unsafe at Their Coworking Space | Small Business Trends

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As more people work remotely, they are doing so from different places. And one of those places is a coworking space. So, what are the challenges users of these spaces face when they work there?

According to a new survey from Clutch, safety is one of the issues. Almost a quarter or 23% of the respondents in the survey say they don’t feel safe. Moreover, 88% experience different types of challenges.

In the report, Clutch says there are more than 20,000 coworking spaces in the world. And as more companies send their workforce to work in these spaces, they should address the challenges they are facing.

Titled, “6 Challenges of Coworking Spaces” the report looks at each issue with a workaround for the problem.

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How to Protect Employees Who Drive for Work | business.com

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Learn how company driving policies help business owners protect their companies, their employees and everyone else on the road.

Putting in place best-practice safety measures is something that every business owner should give considerable attention to. While regularly reviewing and adapting needed changes to a business’s safety policies might not be at the top of the to-do list for many companies, failure to do so could result in serious injury and threaten a company’s future. This happens to be particularly true if your business requires its employees to regularly get behind the wheel.

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The entrepreneur stopping food waste | BBC News

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The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Mette Lykke, co-founder of fitness tracker Endomondo, and chief executive of food waste app, Too Good To Go.

For many people, leaving the stability of a well-paid job to join a start-up might seem daunting. For Danish entrepreneur Mette Lykke, it’s a leap she’s made not just once, but twice.

Back in 2007 she was working for management consultancy firm McKinsey, but decided it was time to change direction. “I was missing the feeling of having a real impact,” she says.

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Reset Your Computer Once a Year for a Happier Life | WIRED

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Resetting your laptop is one of the most powerful munitions you’ve got in your troubleshooting armory. It puts your Windows, macOS, or Chrome OS computer back to the state it was in when you first got it home from the store, and that means you’ve got none of the clutter, or bugs, that may have built up in the time since.

Thankfully, the process is much easier than it used to be. Microsoft, Apple, and Google have put tools for the job right inside their operating systems, while applications have come to rely more and more on the cloud, so your important data is most likely already backed up somewhere online ready to be redownloaded.

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